Borderless: 2 (An Analog Novel, 2) - Hardcover

Peper, Eliot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1503904725 ISBN 13: 9781503904729

Publisher: 47North, 2018

Synopsis

Information is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.

Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on. When she’s hired to investigate the world’s leading techno capitalist, she unknowingly accepts an assignment with a dark ulterior purpose. Navigating a labyrinth of cutouts and false fronts, Diana discovers a plot to nationalize the global feed.

As tech and politics speed toward a catastrophic reckoning, Diana must reconcile the sins of her past with her dreams of tomorrow. How she deploys the secrets in her arsenal will shape the future of a planet on the brink of disaster. Doing the right thing means risking everything to change the rules of the game. But how much is freedom really worth?

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Review

“Peper returns to the future of the feed—‘the information infrastructure upon which the world was built’—in this taut cyberthriller follow-up to Bandwidth...Clock-ticking suspense....Readers will find that this novel’s near-future scenario resonates resoundingly with present-day headlines about net neutrality and global dependence on the internet, and the adventure story is satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly

“Peper does an outstanding job of researching his books and painting futures that are all too plausible.” —The Geekiverse

“Borderless shows us the tech-fueled nightmare that we’ve all created...Like a James Bond film, there’s plenty of action, booze, sex, fights, and quick changes of scenery. But while Bond films are essentially self-contained, the Peperverse, like the Star Trek universe, continues to expand and reveal new angles and shades never contemplated in earlier work...If the first volume asked the question—how do algorithms manipulate one’s own emotional truth?—this book asks: In a fluid world that incessantly floods us with information, what boundaries should exist? A matryoshka of a story.” —Ars Technica

“A sharply rendered, wildly entertaining thriller speaking to the dangerous realities of our present.” —East Bay Express

“Through exciting twists and turns, Borderless explores how the rise of tech platforms challenges traditional nation states.” —Exponential View

“A riveting cautionary tale about how the control of information could lead to new forms of democratic governance, or to accidental empires. Rooted in the current realities of the internet and social media, Borderless explores a near future in which our lives are shaped without our conscious consideration.” —Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist

“William Gibson meets Daniel Suarez. Launching the reader into a world dominated by massive tech companies and struggling nation states, Borderless explores frighteningly plausible scenarios that extrapolate the social implications of privacy, data, and national sovereignty. Diana, a refugee-turned-secret-agent, barrels through Bay Area hipster hangouts and the inner sanctums of geopolitical power on her way to shaping a future that feels like it’s right around the corner. Borderless is fresh, intriguing, and inevitable.” —John Hanke, CEO at Niantic and creator of Google Maps, Google Earth, and Pokémon Go

“If you’re looking for fast-paced near-future fiction that grapples with hot-button topics like online disinformation and manipulation, tech monopolies, climate change, and the increasing conflict between global data networks and the sovereignty of the nation-state, Eliot has got you covered.” —Kevin Bankston, director of New America’s Open Technology Institute

“Rising science fiction star Eliot Peper takes us into a near future where everyone, every nation, and everything depends on the feed—an extension of the dominant social media companies that dominate the news today. Compelling action is mixed with thoughtful treatises on the power of information and who should control it, and on the nature of human relationships. Borderless is a timely novel, and a worthy sequel to Bandwidth.” —Glen Hiemstra, founder of Futurist.com

“Every empire builds an information infrastructure. Rome built roads. The British had an imperial telegraph system. What happens when the infrastructure is independent of the empires? That’s the fascinating question explored by Borderless, an entertaining novel of intrigue and action full of troubled heroes and imperfect compromises.” —Peter Cowhey, dean of UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy and chair in Communications and Technology Policy

About the Author

Eliot Peper is the author of Cumulus, True Blue, Neon Fever Dream, The Uncommon Series, and Bandwidth, the first novel in the Analog Series. His near-future thrillers have been praised by The Verge, Popular Science, Businessweek, io9, and Ars Technica. Eliot is an editor at Scout and an adviser to entrepreneurs and investors. He has helped build various technology businesses, survived dengue fever, translated Virgil’s Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and the Chicago Review of Books; and he has been a speaker at Google, Qualcomm, Future in Review, and the Conference on World Affairs.

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About this edition

• Publisher: 47North
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1503904725
• ISBN 13: 9781503904729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284